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<p class="MsoPlainText">Perhaps <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/when-will-the-lone-start-state-turn-blue/">
Texas</a> is key to putting a stop to all this?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">On 8/17/18, 4:52 PM, "Friam on behalf of Barry MacKichan" <friam-bounces@redfish.com on behalf of barry.mackichan@mackichan.com> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> Clusterf**k ?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> Oops, sorry, I was thinking of Trump. Also it’s after 5 on a Friday
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> here on the east coast.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> --Barry<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> On 17 Aug 2018, at 18:42, uǝlƃ <span style="font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">
☣</span> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > Bah! If you are, as I am, a post-modernist, explanatory power reduces
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > to evocative power. Whatever I can do to evoke a predictable response
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > in the audience is adequate. Although I count myself a fan of
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > Wittgenstein's STFU approach, I can't deny the power of those who just
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > never STFU. (Witness the interminable chants at the various pro-this,
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > anti-that rallies.) It's a kind of hypnosis ... a droning on and on
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > until you win over your audience with tone and rhythm more so than
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > content.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> > But w.r.t. Zweigneiderlassung, I'm currently enthralled with McShea
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > and Brandon's concept of the ZFEL and "pure complexity", which (in my
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > ignorance) disallows reliance on "branching" as a core concept.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > Simple counting seems more appropriate, especially since that makes
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > sense to most people. I admit that McShea and Brandon seem to be
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > relying fundamentally on some implicit spatial sense. But perhaps
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> > that's OK in this context?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> > On 08/17/2018 03:21 PM, Robert Holmes wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >> I always call it the Zweigneiderlassung.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 4:14 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3@gmail.com>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >>> The explanatory power of all words is limited. See Wittgenstein.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"> >>> Wovon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> >>> Mann nicht sprechen kann daruber muss Mann schweigen.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> > -- <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> > <span style="font-family:"Apple Color Emoji"">☣</span> uǝlƃ<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> ><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> > ============================================================<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College<o:p></o:p></p>
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